Ceres
03-09-2009, 01:54 PM
From http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,26020811-1248,00.html
CLASSES at Ipswich State High School were put into lockdown for an hour after a gang of armed girls invaded the site, it has been revealed.
<!-- // END article intro ************************************** --> <!-- // article corpus ************************************** --> A group of between seven and 10 teenage girls drove into the school grounds in two cars before getting out to hunt down a number of female students, the Queensland Times reports (http://www.qt.com.au/story/2009/09/03/knife-gang-rampage-ipswich-high/).
Witnesses said some of the girls carried knives and even a chain.
The incident occurred last Thursday lunchtime - just one day before 15-year-old student Jai Morcom was killed in a schoolyard fight in Mullumbimby, northern New South Wales.
Police from Ipswich and Karana Downs were called to the school at 12.45pm, but the gang had fled by the time they arrived nine minutes later.
A spokesman for Education Queensland (http://search.news.com.au/search//0/?us=ndmnews&sid=1248&as=news&ac=ninews2&q=Education%20Queensland) said the school's security was constantly under review.
Read the full story at the Queensland Times here (http://www.qt.com.au/story/2009/09/03/knife-gang-rampage-ipswich-high/)I'm finding all these stories unbelievably sad. School is not something that should be survived like this. Whatever value these kids are getting out of their school experience is surely surpassed by bullying and violence.
CLASSES at Ipswich State High School were put into lockdown for an hour after a gang of armed girls invaded the site, it has been revealed.
<!-- // END article intro ************************************** --> <!-- // article corpus ************************************** --> A group of between seven and 10 teenage girls drove into the school grounds in two cars before getting out to hunt down a number of female students, the Queensland Times reports (http://www.qt.com.au/story/2009/09/03/knife-gang-rampage-ipswich-high/).
Witnesses said some of the girls carried knives and even a chain.
The incident occurred last Thursday lunchtime - just one day before 15-year-old student Jai Morcom was killed in a schoolyard fight in Mullumbimby, northern New South Wales.
Police from Ipswich and Karana Downs were called to the school at 12.45pm, but the gang had fled by the time they arrived nine minutes later.
A spokesman for Education Queensland (http://search.news.com.au/search//0/?us=ndmnews&sid=1248&as=news&ac=ninews2&q=Education%20Queensland) said the school's security was constantly under review.
Read the full story at the Queensland Times here (http://www.qt.com.au/story/2009/09/03/knife-gang-rampage-ipswich-high/)I'm finding all these stories unbelievably sad. School is not something that should be survived like this. Whatever value these kids are getting out of their school experience is surely surpassed by bullying and violence.